<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Ideas are not cheap if they are world-changing.  Just gotta influence the money people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Spoofing the religious conservatives seems like a great idea to me.  Let me know your method and I"ll send the $3.50.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 8:41 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_7228027105114475113WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] dna<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">A whole buttload of money - again.  How many schemes have you had?</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Don’t know.  Lost count.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">Some serious?  Maybe this will work out for you</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ya never know.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">Is drool better than hair?</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Drool is easier to collect, but keep in mind, hair itself will not work.  It has to have the follicle with it. Owwww…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">I'll put up all of my savings, some $3.50 for your company.    I'll take half the profits for the idea.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ideas don’t make profits.  Companies do.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">  Now why didn't I take that idea to the car companies?  Never occurred to me</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">See above.  Unless someone puts up a lot of money at risk, there is no profit.  Ideas are cheap.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">How do you protect yourself from others stealing your ideas?  Walk into the car company's president'office and tell him the future.   He'll say thanks and goodbye and you'll never make a penny out of it.</span>  <span style="color:black">bill w</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ja of course, but ideas are not valuable.  Having one that people will invest in, that is valuable.  Just ideas, not.  I have an infinite supply of ideas.  I am full of it.  THEM rather, full of them: ideas.  Lots of ideas.  Nothing worth investing in.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Here’s another one: that previous notion of creating carbon 14-free food so that donors can supply more durable DNA would result in some refined or enriched carbon 14 extracted from the sample to be made into veggies.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">OK now, get some of that stuff, the right heat and pressure, create C14-rich soot.  Now, archaeologist discovers fossil estimated to be about 100k yrs old, a wooly mammoth or something.  Creationist sneaks in with the C14-rich soot, gives it a light dusting, sneaks away.  Archaeologists finish digging out fossil, send it in for analysis, comes back 5000 years old, creationist shows those evil old archaeologists the biblical flood was right.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Then we get to reveal the gag.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Oh what fun that would be.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">There’s an idea for you BillW: a way to cause the C14 tests to show way younger than the material really is.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ready to invest your $3.50?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">spike <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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